Will my child survive living with AADC Deficiency?
Nobody knows the life expectancy of a child living with AADC deficiency. Symptoms vary greatly from child to child and because there are so few children currently diagnosed with the disorder it is impossible to say what the long-term affect of AADC deficiency is going to be.

We do know that AADC deficiency has already cost children their lives.

AADC deficiency is considered to be a fairly new scientific discovery and because of the similarity in some of the symptoms shared with Parkinson’s disease we can only hope that a major breakthrough in the treatment of Parkinson’s disease could have potential benefits in treating a child with AADC deficiency. However, it also possible that by researching the biochemical mechanisms involved in AADC, new insights into our understanding and treatment of Parkinson’s disease could occur.